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Durban - Matters of gender violence must be prioritised,
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said in Durban on Friday.

"It will take a collective and commitment to relieve
women from the suffering [and] pain that they have endured for far too
long," Mogoeng said at a women's judges conference at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal.

"We need to ensure that we have a solid team of
investigating officers with special skills to investigate crime of gender
violence, that receives regular training."

He said medical doctors examining rape victims needed to
know what they were doing and laboratories that did DNA tests in sexual violence
cases needed to deliver results speedily to the courts.

"Officials must be sensitised to the special care that
victims of sexual and other forms of gender violence require," Mogoeng
said.

Introspection

The nation needed to make a brutal introspection if it
wanted a society that did not abuse women.

Mogoeng said it was important for parents raising boys to
teach them respect and to lead by example.

"If I beat up people, he will learn that is how he is
supposed to be. If I insult people in public he will learn that is how he is
supposed to be.

"As South Africans we should mind our language, we have
become too loose to express our anger," he said.

Mogoeng said the media could play a role in broadcasting
programmes with material that taught parents how to raise children.

"The toy guns we buy for our children, the movies they
watch and possibly the language employed in addressing issues at home and in
the public domain, should perhaps be examined and be debated openly,"
Mogoeng said.

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